Gail-Joon Ahn, PhD, CISSP
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University

Title: Securing and Utilizing Social
Dynamics

Abstract: Considering the popularity
and
wide adoption of social network systems and the competitive edge
these systems provide, there has been a rapid growth in use of these
systems to access, store, and exchange personal attribute
information in distributed and/or federated environments and this
trend is expected to continue. Efficient, secure, and user-centric
techniques are important for the successful deployment of such
systems. The vision of dynamic social networks is a complex and
highly sophisticated one that requiring ongoing research and
analysis to continue concurrent with the changing role and face of
digital information creation and usage including personal
information and contents in social networks. This talk presents
ongoing research results and findings related to (a) security
mechanisms for securing social networks and (b) analytic
intelligence for understanding and discovering social dynamics.

Bio: Gail-Joon Ahn, Ph.D, CISSP is an Associate
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Program in the School of
Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State
University and Director of Laboratory of Security Engineering for Future
Computing (SEFCOM).

His research foci include access control, secure
information sharing, vulnerability and risk management, identity and
privacy management, security-enhanced computing platforms, security
architecture for network and distributed systems, and modeling for
computer security. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA, DoD,
DoE, DoJ, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. He is currently an information director of ACM
Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) and he is
a recipient of Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator
Award and Educator of the Year Award from Federal Information Systems
Security Educators' Association (FISSEA). Also, he serves as Associate
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
and Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems
Security. He earned his MS and PhD degrees from George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia in 1996 and 2000, respectively.